Forbid vs Forsake - What's the difference?
forbid | forsake |
To disallow; to proscribe.
* 1908 ,
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
* Shakespeare
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.
English irregular verbs
English words prefixed with for-
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==Norwegian Bokmål==
to give up, relinquish
to denounce (the devil)
As verbs the difference between forbid and forsake
is that forbid is to disallow; to proscribe while forsake is to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.forbid
English
Verb
- Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden .
- the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.
- Have I not forbid her my house?
- An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
- a blaze of glory that forbids the sight
- He shall live a man forbid .